I wrote this piece some time ago, but it has been sitting on my laptop. My hesitation in publishing it came from a simple place: I’m not an expert. I’m still learning, still forming my views, and I don’t yet have settled opinions.

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can think, write, and create art, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

There’s an old saying:
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

Joshua Foer, a science writer, was once commissioned by Slate magazine to cover the U.S. Memory Championship. A year later, he returned not as a journalist but as a competitor.

A journalist once asked Warren Buffett:
“You’re one of the richest people in the world, and the way you explain what you do sounds so simple. Why doesn’t everyone just copy you?”

1. Move when the sun is up.
Don’t sit when you can stand.
Don’t stand when you can walk.
Don’t walk when you can run.

1. Eliminate or significantly reduce screen time

I am the first generation in my family whose work moved from the physical world to screens. First it was work, then communication (WhatsApp) and finally entertainment (Netflix).

Wŏnhyo, a Korean Buddhist monk, was travelling to China long time ago to study Buddhism.

Munger studied meteorology at Caltech and law at Harvard, but in the real world, he refused to live inside academic fences. He learned from everywhere.

Here is a passage from Richard Dawkins’ (extraordinary) book The Blind Watchmaker. It’s about a basic fact of biology.